Cold Creek December ...

“The good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.”

        ~ “The good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise” is an American slang expression implying strong intentions subject to complete frustration by uncommon but not unforeseeable events. It presumably evokes occasional and unpredictably extreme rainfall in Appalachia, that has historically isolated one rural neighborhood or another temporarily inaccessible on several or many occasions and when most folks in the mountains use this term, that is exactly what they mean.

The cold waters of the Little Lehigh Creek gently flow through Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania on an early December day, as autumn prepares to segue into winter.

The Gentle Autumn ...

“Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.”

     ~ Edwin Way Teale

         ~ 1899-1980

          ~ American naturalist,

                   photographer & writer

        ~Teale’s works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930 – 1980. He is perhaps best known for his series “The American Seasons,” four books documenting over 75,000 miles (121,000 km) of automobile travel across North America following the changing seasons.

The changing color of autumn leaves gently cascade over the Little Lehigh Creek on an early November day at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Poetry In Motion ...

“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”

                         ~ Kahlil Gibran

                           ~ 1883-1931

The light of a mid-November sunset dances like poetry in motion on a crest of the Little Lehigh Creek on a beautiful autumn day in this long exposure shot I captured at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania.